I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

I see so many guys, really athletic guys, wearing pleats and I just shake my head. Like, Tiger Woods used to wear pleated pants! I’m like, ‚C’mon, Tiger!‘

In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

If I’m in a bad mood, or if I’m uncomfortable, it’s probably what I’m wearing that’s making me feel that way.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

I’m always cast in these strange men… that’s not me, really.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

I have more suits than days of the year that I get to wear them.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

I’m big on what’s in good taste.

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don’t really know me at all.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There’s nothing worse than dainty little Italian jobs at the end of the leg line.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

The only person who ever called me Paul was my father, so I always associate it with doing something wrong, you know. So, you know, occasionally, people will come up to me on the street and try to, you know, ingratiate themselves and call me Paul. I don’t like it, actually.

I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I’m past that age.

My jewelry’s all fake – from Claire’s. Or I get it from my mom’s boutique in Barbados.

Don’t just eat McDonald’s, get something a bit better. Eat a salad. That’s what fashion is. It’s something that is a bit better.

I love soft-cotton white T-shirts.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

I like Tom Ford a lot because it’s so classic and has great quality. I wear a lot of Rag & Bone.

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

My style offstage is so different from onstage. I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.

Obviously black matches with everything.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman?

I wear the same outfit or, at least, a different copy of it almost every day.

If you wear clothes that don’t suit you, you’re a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

I haven’t changed at all. I’m the same as when I was 11.

The French have got taste.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

I’m not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I’m seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.

Fashion is life-enhancing, and I think it’s a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.